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Sipping coffee on the lanai and thumbing through a magazine in the living room, one Florida grandma decided to playfully pose in photos being taken of her home for a real estate guide. Yolie Ball, 86, had her daughter take photos of the Davenport home she was trying to sell. Ball peeked her head out the bedroom door just as her daughter was about to snap a picture, she went to pull back but her daughter thought it was funny, so Ball stayed in frame, according to Good Morning America. Then the mother-daughter duo had an impromptu photo shoot with Ball posing casually in each image. The pair had no intention of submitting the photos for the listing, but Ball's granddaughter...

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Sipping coffee on the lanai and thumbing through a magazine in the living room, one Florida grandma decided to playfully pose in photos being taken of her home for a real estate guide.
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